Nova Patents
US8300262B2

Method of playing video using handheld display device

Summary by NHIP

Virtual window video playback

The method overlays a handheld device on printed content to generate image data and retrieve associated video. It displays real-time virtual transparency through an opaque touch-sensitive screen to create a virtual window while showing playback controls for the video.

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 1, the broadest

Abstract

A method of playing video using a handheld display device having a touch-sensitive screen and a transceiver for sending and receiving digital information. The method comprises the steps of: imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an optical sensor, the printed substrate containing printed content associated with a video; determining interaction data using the image data, the interaction data identifying a substrate identity; retrieving video data associated with the printed content; and playing, on the touch-sensitive screen, the video based on the retrieved video data.

US8300262B2, drawing sheet 1
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Term

Term ended

Expired 25 November 2020, 5.8 years ago.

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7 claims: 1 independent, 6 dependent

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    Broadest claimClaim Score 40, average(NHIP)A method of playing video using a handheld display device having an image sensor, a transceiver and an opaque touch-sensitive screen, said method comprising the steps of:overlaying said display device on part of a printed substate, said printed substrate containing a printed content associated with a video imaging an area of the printed substrate and generating image data using the image sensor;determining interaction data using said image data, said interaction data identifying a page description corresponding to the printed substrate;sending the interaction data to a computer system, thereby causing the computer system to identify the page description, and retrieve display data and video data associated with said printed content;receiving said display data and said video data from the computer system;displaying, on said opaque touch-sensitive screen, display information matching and aligning with said printed content underlying said screen such that the opaque screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content underlying said screen from a user's perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen;displaying, on said opaque touch-sensitive screen, playback controls icons for controlling playback of said video;and playing, on said opaque touch-sensitive screen, said video based on said video data when said user interacts with one of said playback control icons.